Tree with earrings. Names of trees with earrings

Inflorescences in the form of earrings are usually found on trees that grow in countries with a temperate or cold climate. Most of these trees are deciduous. But, on the other hand, not all of them are related and even belong to different orders.

The earring is a type of inflorescence. In it to the main axis (twig) are attached small flowers. These are simple inflorescences. And they fall down, in contrast to the ears. In nature, distinguish between complex and simple inflorescences. In the latter, simple earrings are fixed on the axis of the inflorescence. Thus, the earring is double.

About what happens to a tree with earrings, the types of plants, the peculiarities of their growth will be briefly described in this article.

Wind-pollinated (anemorphic) plants

The main difference of various shrubs and trees, which have the type of inflorescence of the earring, is the nature of their pollination. In nature in the world of plants this process can contribute to the following factors: birds, insects and mammals. And there is also the wind.

Pollinated by the wind, earrings on trees spring appear with the first rays of a warm sun. This is due to the lack of leaves on the trees, as the pollen freely moves to them, reaching the goal.

But wind-pollinated plants are different, with different evolutionary adaptations and principles.

Representatives of such plants are trees from the family Birch.

Trees with earrings: names

Warty birch is the most common in Eurasia. She has an early spring blossom. Earrings - inflorescences complex, widely used in medicine.

Family Nut, pollinated by the wind, are also representatives with inflorescences-earrings: black walnut, walnut, gray walnut, cari.

Hazelnut, or hazel, is a small tree with earrings or a bush. Plant with same-sex flowers, monoecious. The opening of the earrings also occurs before the appearance of the leaves.

The alder also blooms before the leaves bloom. The peculiarity is that there are species of this plant, blooming in autumn, after the leaves fall. Earrings are same-sex.

Grab is a plant of one sex. His earrings blossom at the same time as the leaves.

Aspen is another tree with earrings. The plant is dioecious and has small nondescript flowers collected in dangling earrings. Male inflorescences have a reddish hue, up to 15 centimeters, and female - thin greenish. Blooms aspen before leaves blossom.

Poplar also blooms before the leaves bloom. It is curious that aspen and poplar belong to the family of Willows, in which other of its representatives are pollinated by insects.

Separately about alders

This tree, blossoming with earrings, blooms, as soon as the snow melts and the spring sun warms up the ground a little. It changes, becoming reddish-golden. Inflorescences of it are similar to surprisingly beautiful female earrings, although it is male flowers (a tree is a dioecious). In a similar earring, the length of which is about 7 cm, a total of about 300 flowers!

The peculiarity of this plant is that future earrings are planted on alder in the height of summer, grow slowly and only by the autumn acquire their "planned" sizes. Wintering on bare branches, in the spring with the first rays of the sun, inflorescences grow, grow stout, and then open their anthers.

Swinging from the slight breeze of the wind, the inflorescences discard the yellow pollen, covering the branches of the tree with a light cloud. Alder rush to blossom before its leaves bloom, as the latter prevent the transfer of pollen from the male's earring to the female spikelet.

Birch earrings

Birch (tree with earrings) is not only the most common and famous plant of Russian territories, but also the most slender, beautiful and tender. And the most amazing earrings play an important role in this.

They are female and male near the birch. The first - single and thinner.

The use of birch earrings in folk medicine is quite common. And usually use male (staminate), hanging down and located next to several pieces. Constant birch earrings treat heart diseases, gastritis and stomach ulcers, tuberculosis and anemia.

About earrings growing on trees, you can talk quite a lot, since such plants in nature are many.